Microsoft's cloud control plane faltered in a high‑visibility incident that knocked Xbox Live, Microsoft 365, Minecraft, and a raft of third‑party services offline for hours, leaving gamers and businesses scrambling while engineers rolled back an Azure Front Door configuration and rerouted...
Microsoft’s cloud went dark for a chunk of the global workday on October 29, 2025, when a configuration error in Azure Front Door (AFD) cascaded through the company’s edge and identity fabric, knocking Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Xbox services and thousands of customer sites into partial or...
Microsoft’s cloud backbone faltered on the afternoon of October 29, 2025, when an Azure Front Door configuration error produced a global outage that briefly knocked Xbox storefronts, Xbox Game Pass installs, Minecraft authentication, Microsoft 365 admin consoles and a long list of third‑party...